I sometimes need to serve a little dessert or sweet to company that I don't particularly want to explain my g-free diet to. So I try to find a gluten-free food that will not make people question. Now that is easy with a meal--there are lots of naturally g-free meals: such as steak, baked potato, salad--all g-free, and no one would think a thing about it. But desserts and breakfast are just a little bit harder to hide what's going on.
So this week I needed a g-free cookie to serve a guest on Friday--and I wanted no suspicion about it's ingredients. I wanted a crispy oatmeal, pecan cookie--one like the one I like to make in "What We Cook". So I searched the internet till I found a g-free oatmeal cookie that had a similar ingredient list, except with all the g-free flours and gar gum--which you have to have to take the place of gluten. Well, my cookie worked! It was 95% the same as it's wheat counter part. The only concern was that the cookie breaks apart into crumbs very easily, so it is rather delicate. But the taste and crispness is perfect--so I am happy!
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